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Walter G. Ecton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has long played a substantial, though controversial, role within America's public schools. While supporters argue that CTE may increase student engagement and prepare students for success in the workforce, detractors caution that CTE may inhibit students' access to the rigorous academic coursework needed for…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Course Selection (Students)
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Resnik, Julia – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Since the 1980s, education in Canada has been through a process that led to school choice, targeting the improvement of students' performance through school competition. These policies fostering an education quasi-market became an ideal framework for the expansion of IB schools. Since the Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate (IBDP)…
Descriptors: Competition, Advanced Placement Programs, School Districts, International Education
Murillo, Leo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this causal comparative study is to determine whether the assistant principal decision-making process and their years of experience influence the advanced diploma rates in high schools on Long Island, New York. The subjects for this study were 75 assistant principals in Long Island high schools during 2016. Assistant principals'…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, High Schools, Decision Making, Graduation Rate
Poole, Kerry D. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Florida has experienced some of the greatest growth of Advanced Placement (AP) programs in recent years and student scores on the AP exams have evolved into a highly significant metric in evaluating student proficiency and teacher and school effectiveness. Despite this growth, it is not well known how AP teachers make decisions about the content…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, History Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Decision Making
Rourke, James; Mero, Dianne – Principal Leadership, 2008
Data-driven decision-making, targeted staff development, collaborative leadership, and the sheer will of committed staff members have launched Wheaton High School on a promising trajectory. Located in Montgomery County, Maryland, a predominately affluent area that has more than 20 high schools, Wheaton has always received attention, but…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Decision Making
Holloway, Robert E. – 1978
This study investigated the characteristics of an innovative cooperative high school-college program as perceived by principals of adopting and nonadopting schools. The data from survey questionnaires with 24 Likert-type items were reduced to six factors: observability, status, simplicity, cost, trialability, and relative…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), Class Size